Sunday, August 12, 2007

TRAIN ! TRAIN OF LIFE!!

Well it took me several months to post again on my blog..but here it goes....
For a lot of time now, I have been thinking about this...Whenever I travel by a train, it dawns on to me again and again that I want to really write something about this in my blog..so I decide... but as soon as I get out of the train...I forget about it...
Ohh..well,in fact that's what I want to write about..Small-small things that we get connected to ,while we are on train,journeying..and we feel we would never really forget them..or atleast we wont forget them easily..But ,hell NO! We forget them as soon as the train disappears from the station we alight at.
Well,let me give an example..the other day..I met a guy on my way to Mumbai from Pune..he was working in Mumbai,and was originally from Jabalpur.Actually we met at the ticket queue and then again in the train where we were standing near the door of the general compartment.We talked about many topics including cricket,railways,studies,IITs etc.etc. I thought I would not so easily forget him..but yes I did..and that too very easily.There were other things to worth remembering too.On the way,there was a queer incident of our train hitting a bull who strayed on the rails,and obviously got killed.It took about half an hour's delay ,first to locate the caracass, then to clear the rails and then resuming the journey.Throughout this time I was observing the general junta's behavior very closely..and it was really amusing..people felt important when they had some information about the problem caused and were eager to tell that to anybody who asked(or to anybody who didn't ask too!!) Every person ,being from a different background had a different take on it...The point is,traveling on a train does really involves things worth remembering...
Each time I board the train, I meet a new set of people,from a completely different background than that I had met till now...I forget them almost as soon as I leave the train.That reminds me of a similar experience that we have when we go to a new place and spend a reasonable amount of time there..That happened to me recently when I went to a university for a project.While leaving the place, I distinctly thought of many people,who I had met here and was quite sure that I won't meet them ever again.And well,isn't this true about life in general ,too ? I mean, at every juncture of life,we meet a whole lot of new people,enjoy their company,learn a lot of things from them,may be sometimes dont like them..do crazy,weird things with them and what not !
That made me think of the train as nothing but life,just FAST FORWARD !It's like a short trailer of a long movie...Thats what it is...TRAIN ! TRAIN OF LIFE !!